The most substantial volume yet in the Critical Cartoons series published by Uncivilized Books, New Realities presents over 200 full, comic book size pages filled with an in-depth critical overview of Dash Shaw's comics making career along with a significant sampling of the artist's work that mixes excerpts of graphic novels with full short stories.  This combination makes for a hybrid, critical collection, offering readers an opportunity to engage in dialectics by absorbing and processing Greg Hunter's perspectives and insights and then to applying them to Dash Shaw's work in situ, and so to forge their own unique synthesis.